Oh August, we hardly knew thee….
Today was a super quick day with the kids. I had a collaboration meeting that pulled me out of the room from 8:30-9:30 and then the kids have PE after lunch. So the day came and went.
During my absence the kids read most of this week's story about Earthquakes and discussed questions related to this week's reading strategy of inference/predicting. Therefore the kids need to read only the final 3 pages and then they can/should begin working on their comprehension work for the week.
The kids also had 20 minutes to begin working on tonight's math homework while the visiting teacher was here.
Upon my triumphant return :) We discussed some math questions that the children had, we discussed the new math program being all on line and how to properly behave and respect our computer lab.
Computer lab time --- students can not sign in on their own individual account yet so we used generic log ins. Upon logging in the students successfully logged into our math program.
user name: their five digit district i.d. with a zero in front;
example: student i.d. is 12345 then their user name is: 012345
password: changeme
The ENTIRE math book is found on-line. Therefore they can never tell you that they forgot their book at school and they can't do their homework.
We then successfully logged into www.brainpop.com
We watched movies on earthquakes, tectonic plates and natural disasters.
Students can watch these educational movies M-F from 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. user name dublinelem ask your son/daughter for the password.
We then successfully went to my webpage to see where to find all of my links that I keep.
www.delicious.com/iamron is the main one.
Finally the kids were doing such a great job of listening and managing their way through the many websites, I allowed them 10 minutes to go to here:
http://www.subservientchicken.com/
After that we returned to review last night's math homework. We corrected it and took questions. Then we reviewed a near copy of tomorrow's math test.
Click here to use this as a study device for tonight:
http://www.box.net/shared/ef13f33c5e
We also discussed 5th Grade's Reading Around the World.
I gave them the handout and we quickly discussed the minimum requirement of 800 pages per trimester, the Hall of Fame and how I'm only asking 9-10 pages per day. We will discuss this at Back to School Night on Thursday.
I also discussed the 5th grade "end of week party." Kids who haven't completed all of their learning opportunities (called homework in the non-p.c. days) by Friday will stay 20 minutes after school on Friday.
Homework for the week:
Math
HC page 16 7-14 all and page 18/19 1-14 all due Wednesday
Unit 1 test is on Wednesday
HC page 25 1-26 all (pb 2-1 R or page 25 27-34 all) due Thursday
Reading Comprehension: All due Thursday
Read pages 26-46
Hardcover book page 46 1-4 and #6 – answer in complete sentences
P.B. 4 and 5
Vocabulary Work: All due Wednesday
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/index.html#g5
Define and use in a sentence the 5 challenge words
P.B. 3, 8, and 12
Grammar: Type of Sentences due on Thursday
P.B. 13, 14 and 15
Free-write due Thursday
The most dangerous thing in my house is……..
Thursday – spelling test, vocab test and reading test on this week's story.
Kind regards,
Ron Hubbard
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